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Gary Allen, MD, FACS, is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon who specializes in treating patients with various disorders of the lungs, heart, airway and great vessels. He is specially trained in minimally invasive techniques for performing aortic valve surgery, mitral valve surgery and lung surgery, and has vast experience in performing open heart surgery, coronary artery bypass, surgical ventricular remodeling, aneurysm surgery of the thoracic aorta and surgical correction for atrial fibrillation. A recipient of the Ralph D. Alley Prize for Cardiothoracic Surgery and other honors, Dr. Allen is a leading physician in his field who provides advanced diagnostic testing and surgical treatments at AdventHealth Waterman. He is a graduate of Albany Medical College in New York and carried out his general surgery residency at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center prior to undertaking his fellowship training in cardiovascular surgery at the University of Utah.